M 5.1 in Vanuatu on 17 Jan 2017 01:17 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1103390
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 44.83 Km
Lat/Lon: -13.5404 , 166.5384
Event Date: 17 Jan 2017 01:17 UTC
17 Jan 2017 12:17 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jan 2017 03:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007tl5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 292 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Disaster office installs warning signagesFri, 20 Jan 2017 18:38:00 +0100.

THE City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) had installed warning signages to instill public awareness on the hazard prone areas of Zamboanga City. CDRRMO chief Elmeir Jade Apolinario said the installation of the signage
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),